[syslog-ng] Resolving host IPs on the central log server

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 14:08 -0500, Steve Bernacki wrote:
> My setup is pretty simple:  I have a number of local syslog-ng 
> "collectors" feeding into one central syslog-ng server.  All systems are 
> running syslog-ng 2.0.7.   I'd like to optimize the collectors for speed 
> and thus not attempt to resolve hostnames there, but rather pass the 
> syslog message raw to the central log server who then performs the 
> IP->DNS translation and writes the message to disk.  I've experimented 
> with the various dns_* options to no avail, as it seems like syslog-ng 
> wants to either resolve the hostname at the collector, or not at all. 
> Am I missing something simple here, or is this not possible with 2.0.7?

This is not possible right now.

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Bazsi